The public sector is coping well with budget constraints and the Government’s plan to move resources “from the back office to the frontline,” Mr Ryall maintains. “While it is fair to say we have 2400, or 2700 fewer positions within the core public service, we have actually used that money to employ 1600 more teachers, 2000 more nurses, 800 more doctors and 600 more police.”

So 2,400 fewer people in administrative or backroom roles, and 5,000 more nurses, teachers, police and doctors.

Worth remembering that the parties of the left have spent the last three years denouncing this, resisting every single efficiency gain in in the public sector. They’ve battled as if every single policy analyst or communications advisor job is sacred, and without them, it will be a disaster.

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It’s a shame these idiot journalists don’t mention the number of ‘policy analysts’ that Labour added to the public purse. Or the hundreds that now comprise the likes of the Tertiary Education Commission. Pretty much anything with the word ‘commission’ in it needs some serious looking into.

Here in the south , there seems to be little enthousiasm for these policies. They say there are endless rules and regulations and no one to enforce them. For example containers sitting on wharves and no MAF officials available. There is spin and then there is reality; ordinary hard working people have to cope with reality. The MAF amalgamation is a bio security risk.
Mind you , we seem to be turning into a disaster a month country. Seldom are these disasters linked back to their original causes…The causes don’t fit the current spin.